Critical organ dosimetry in permanent seed prostate brachytherapy: Defining the organs at risk

Brachytherapy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 186-194

  Crook, Juanita M ^a   Potters, Louis ^b   Stock, Richard G ^c   Zelefsky, Michael J ^d  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b SOUTH NASSAU COMMUNITIES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Guidelines; Prostate brachytherapy; Rectal dose; Urethral dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT;

BODY BURDEN; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25144518567     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2005.01.002     Document Type: Article

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